Cabinet: Glasgow

Angus MacNeil: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what car journeys were taken by the Secretary of State in attending the Cabinet meeting in Glasgow on 16 April 2009.

Patrick McFadden: For information relating to the Cabinet and public engagement event held in Glasgow on 16 April I refer the hon. Member to the answer given by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister on Wednesday 3 June 2009,  Official Report, column 487W.

Departmental Data Protection

James Brokenshire: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many notifications his Department made to the Information Commissioner in the year ended 30 April 2009 in respect of the loss or mishandling of personal information or data; what was notified in each such case; and how many individuals were the subjects of personal information or data in respect of which such notifications were made.

Patrick McFadden: Under the mandatory requirements of the Data Handling Report published on 25 June 2008 Departments are required to give a summary report on data breaches reported to the Information Commissioner in their annual resource accounts.
	The Department for Enterprise and Regulatory Reform has reported on personal data breaches in the 2007-08 annual resource account and this can be found at:
	http://www.berr.gov.uk/aboutus/corporate/performance/annual-spending/page47093.html
	We will be publishing information on personal data security breaches reported to the Information Commissioner for the 2008-09 reporting year before Parliament rises in July. I am however, pleased to report that there were no losses of personal protected data reported to Information Commissioners Office in 2008-09.

Digital Technology: Conferences

Jeremy Hunt: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what the cost to  (a) his Department and  (b) the public purse was of hosting the Digital Britain Summit on 17 April 2009.

Patrick McFadden: holding answer 11 May 2009
	As we set out in the Interim Digital Britain report we have held a number of summits and public meetings. The total cost to the Government of holding events in London, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast was £59,798. The Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform contributed £34,507.

Phorm

Austin Mitchell: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills if he will publish his Department's replies to the European Communications Commissioner's letters of 30 June 2008, 6 October 2008 and January 2009 on Phorm.

Patrick McFadden: It is not the Government's policy to publish such correspondence. Publication of these letters has already been sought by members of the public under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Each request has been refused, and this position has not changed.

Pupil Exclusions

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families pursuant to the answer of 29 June 2009,  Official Report, column 50W, on pupil exclusions, how many of the exclusions were from  (a) primary,  (b) secondary and  (c) special schools.

Vernon Coaker: This information is shown in the following table.
	
		
			  Primary, secondary and special schools( 1,2) : Number of pupils receiving fixed period exclusions three or more times, England 2006-07, by local authority area, by Government office region in England 
			   Maintained primary schools  State-funded secondary schools  Special schools  Total 
			  
			 England 4,850 38,590 2,130 45,570 
			  
			  North East 160 1,640 110 1,910 
			 Darlington 20 190 10 220 
			 Durham 50 390 30 470 
			 Gateshead 10 60 * 80 
			 Hartlepool * 40 0 40 
			 Middlesbrough 10 160 * 170 
			 Newcastle upon Tyne 10 150 * 160 
			 North Tyneside 10 60 10 80 
			 Northumberland 20 210 10 240 
			 Redcar and Cleveland 10 110 10 130 
			 South Tyneside 0 120 0 120 
			 Stockton-on-Tees 10 90 20 110 
			 Sunderland 20 70 10 100 
			  
			  North West 560 5,330 380 6,260 
			 Blackburn with Darwen 10 90 * 110 
			 Blackpool 30 140 0 170 
			 Bolton 40 300 * 340 
			 Bury 10 150 * 160 
			 Cheshire 70 590 50 720 
			 Cumbria 30 400 * 430 
			 Halton 10 60 * 60 
			 Knowsley * 90 10 100 
			 Lancashire 70 830 70 980 
			 Liverpool 30 150 10 190 
			 Manchester 80 420 30 530 
			 Oldham 20 210 * 230 
			 Rochdale 20 190 10 220 
			 Salford 20 150 20 190 
			 Sefton 10 30 10 40 
			 St. Helen's 20 100 * 120 
			 Stockport 10 310 30 350 
			 Tameside 30 260 30 310 
			 Trafford 10 130 10 150 
			 Warrington 10 180 20 210 
			 Wigan 20 300 50 370 
			 Wirral 20 260 30 300 
			  
			  Yorkshire and the Humber 550 5,160 160 5,870 
			 Barnsley 50 150 0 190 
			 Bradford 60 530 * 590 
			 Calderdale 30 180 0 210 
			 Doncaster 20 430 10 460 
			 East Riding of Yorkshire 40 460 * 510 
			 Kingston Upon Hull, City of 40 150 10 200 
			 Kirklees 60 380 60 490 
			 Leeds 40 770 30 830 
			 North East Lincolnshire 20 150 0 170 
			 North Lincolnshire 30 120 10 160 
			 North Yorkshire 40 340 10 380 
			 Rotherham 30 280 10 320 
			 Sheffield 50 630 10 690 
			 Wakefield 30 480 20 530 
			 York 30 120 * 150 
			  
			  East Midlands 430 3,080 100 3,610 
			 Derby 30 130 10 160 
			 Derbyshire 130 440 40 600 
			 Leicester 40 240 10 300 
			 Leicestershire 40 510 10 550 
			 Lincolnshire 50 220 10 280 
			 Northamptonshire 60 650 20 720 
			 Nottingham 30 200 * 240 
			 Nottinghamshire 60 690 * 750 
			 Rutland * 10 0 10 
			  
			  West Midlands 540 3,780 240 4,570 
			 Birmingham 210 970 60 1,240 
			 Coventry 20 210 20 250 
			 Dudley 20 300 * 320 
			 Herefordshire 10 160 * 170 
			 Sandwell 30 190 * 230 
			 Shropshire 10 190 10 200 
			 Solihull 20 180 20 210 
			 Staffordshire 40 450 20 500 
			 Stoke-on-Trent 20 140 20 170 
			 Telford and Wrekin 40 180 10 230 
			 Walsall 30 170 10 210 
			 Warwickshire 50 320 10 390 
			 Wolverhampton 10 120 50 170 
			 Worcestershire 30 220 20 270 
			  
			  East of England 500 4,180 160 4,850 
			 Bedfordshire 20 260 10 300 
			 Cambridgeshire 40 240 * 270 
			 Essex 170 1,330 40 1,540 
			 Hertfordshire 80 790 70 950 
			 Luton 20 70 0 90 
			 Norfolk 80 460 10 550 
			 Peterborough * 110 0 120 
			 Southend-on-Sea 10 110 20 140 
			 Suffolk 50 640 * 700 
			 Thurrock 20 180 * 200 
			  
			  London 650 3,990 350 4,980 
			  Inner London 290 1,310 110 1,700 
			 Camden 30 100 10 130 
			 City of London 0 0 0 0 
			 Hackney 20 80 * 100 
			 Hammersmith and Fulham 30 50 * 70 
			 Haringey 20 160 0 170 
			 Islington 20 50 * 70 
			 Kensington and Chelsea * 30 * 30 
			 Lambeth 30 170 30 230 
			 Lewisham 20 100 * 120 
			 Newham 30 190 20 240 
			 Southwark 60 110 10 180 
			 Tower Hamlets 10 70 * 80 
			 Wandsworth 20 110 30 160 
			 Westminster 10 120 0 120 
			  
			  Outer London 360 2,680 240 3,280 
			 Barking and Dagenham 20 70 0 100 
			 Barnet 10 200 * 210 
			 Bexley * 120 20 140 
			 Brent 30 140 10 180 
			 Bromley 20 70 30 120 
			 Croydon 20 90 40 150 
			 Ealing 10 160 0 170 
			 Enfield 20 190 10 220 
			 Greenwich 80 260 40 370 
			 Harrow 30 110 0 140 
			 Havering 10 150 0 160 
			 Hillingdon 20 230 * 260 
			 Hounslow 10 130 10 140 
			 Kingston upon Thames 20 40 0 60 
			 Merton 10 150 20 180 
			 Redbridge 20 150 30 190 
			 Richmond upon Thames * 50 * 50 
			 Sutton 20 110 30 150 
			 Waltham Forest 20 290 10 320 
			  
			  South East 920 7,450 330 8,690 
			 Bracknell Forest * 80 0 80 
			 Brighton and Hove 50 270 10 340 
			 Buckinghamshire 30 270 50 350 
			 East Sussex 130 560 40 720 
			 Hampshire 120 1,180 50 1,350 
			 Isle of Wight * 140 0 140 
			 Kent 130 1,390 30 1,550 
			 Medway 60 430 0 490 
			 Milton Keynes 20 160 10 180 
			 Oxfordshire 50 450 * 500 
			 Portsmouth 60 190 20 270 
			 Reading 20 40 10 70 
			 Slough 10 30 * 50 
			 Southampton 60 410 20 490 
			 Surrey 70 920 50 1,050 
			 West Berkshire 10 120 0 130 
			 West Sussex 70 650 20 750 
			 Windsor and Maidenhead 10 70 * 80 
			 Wokingham 10 100 10 120 
			  
			  South West 530 3,980 300 4,820 
			 Bath and North East Somerset 10 160 30 200 
			 Bournemouth 30 80 * 100 
			 Bristol, City of 130 330 60 510 
			 Cornwall 40 220 * 260 
			 Devon 60 740 20 820 
			 Dorset 20 230 * 250 
			 Gloucestershire 30 500 40 570 
			 Isles of Scilly 0 0 0 0 
			 North Somerset 10 70 * 90 
			 Plymouth 10 120 40 170 
			 Poole 40 190 10 240 
			 Somerset 50 500 40 590 
			 South Gloucestershire 40 220 10 260 
			 Swindon 20 170 40 220 
			 Torbay 20 120 * 140 
			 Wiltshire 40 350 10 400 
			 * = less than 5. (1) Includes middle schools as deemed.  (2) Includes CTCs, academies and non-maintained special schools.   Note: Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10.   Source:  Schools Census.

Departmental Publications

Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer of 1 June 2009,  Official Report, column 203W, on official hospitality, in what format the intranet staff handbook is held.

Shahid Malik: The terms and conditions of employment that form our staff handbook are stored on the Department's intranet site as individual web pages.

Fire Services: Greater London

Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer of 10 March 2009,  Official Report, column 318W, on fire services, whether staff in the London Fire Control Room will be eligible for the Fire Brigade's Long Service and Good Conduct Medal.

Shahid Malik: Staff in the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority's new regional control centre will be eligible for the Fire Brigade's Long Service and Good Conduct Medal.

Housing: Low Incomes

Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer of 23 June 2009,  Official Report, column 833W, on housing: construction, how many and what proportion of bidders for funding from the Kickstart Housing Delivery programme have applied for support via  (a) Affordable Housing Grant,  (b) Investment Support and  (c) Homebuy Direct; and if he will make a statement.

John Healey: This data will be published on the HCA website at the end of July:
	http://www.homesandcommunities.co.uk/

Combat Stress

Willie Rennie: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how much his Department has provided to each Combat Stress centre for providing treatment to war pensioners in each of the last 10 years; and how many pensioners have been treated at each such centre.

Kevan Jones: Funds are provided through the War Pensions Scheme's discretionary power to meet the cost of any necessary expenses in respect of medical, surgical or rehabilitative treatment of ex-members of the armed forces that arise from a disablement due to service before 6 April 2005 where it is not provided for under other UK legislation. This includes the individual costs of war pensioners undergoing remedial treatment at homes run by Combat Stress for conditions related to their individual pensioned disablement and of related expenses such as travel costs. Combat Stress receives separate funding from the Scottish Executive for war pensioners' resident in Scotland who receive treatment at Hollybush House.
	The following table shows the funding received by Combat Stress to defray individual treatment expenses under the War Pensions Scheme for the past eight years.
	
		
			   Funding (£ million) 
			 2001-02 1.2 
			 2002-03 1.5 
			 2003-04 1.6 
			 2004-05 2.0 
			 2005-06 2.3 
			 2006-07 2.5 
			 2007-08 3.2 
			 2008-09 3.5 
		
	
	Funding figures for the previous two years and a complete breakdown of the number of war pensioners treated at each centre could be provided only at disproportionate cost. However, in order to give some indication of the numbers of war pensioners receiving treatment, we can state that in financial year 2007-08 some 1,200 individuals, funded through the auspices of the War Pensions Scheme, were treated at the three Combat Stress sites.

Departmental Data Protection

James Brokenshire: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many notifications his Department made to the Information Commissioner in the year ended 30 April 2009 in respect of the loss or mishandling of personal information or data; what was notified in each such case; and how many individuals were the subjects of personal information or data in respect of which such notifications were made.

John Hutton: Under the mandatory requirements of the Data Handling Report published on 25 June 2008, the Ministry of Defence is required to give a summary report on data breaches reported to the Information Commissioner in our annual resource accounts.
	We will be publishing information on personal data security breaches reported to the Information Commissioner for the 2008-09 reporting year before Parliament rises in July. The information is currently being compiled and is to be audited and verified before it is laid before Parliament. The equivalent information from the 2007-08 annual resource account can be found at:
	http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/AboutDefence/CorporatePublications/AnnualReports/MODAnnualReports0708/

Military Aircraft

Nick Harvey: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many aircraft of each type are available for use on  (a) operations and  (b) training within the armed forces.

Quentin Davies: All in service frontline military aircraft are deemed to be available for operations at various states of readiness, ranging from those that are available immediately to those that may require a period of notice to deploy.
	For the total number of frontline in service military aircraft, I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 3 June 2009,  Official Report, column 4MC, to the hon. Member for Woodspring (Dr. Fox). For the number of aircraft available for training, I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 29 June 2009,  Official Report, column 46W, to the hon. Member for Woodspring (Dr. Fox).

Bovine Tuberculosis: Vaccination

David Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs pursuant to the answer of 24 June 2009,  Official Report, column 938W, on bovine tuberculosis: vaccination, if he will consult hon. Members for constituencies in the most affected areas on  (a) numbers of farmers signing up to participate in the pilots and  (b) mechanisms to be put in place for the administration of the vaccine.

Jim Fitzpatrick: We will shortly be writing to MPs with constituencies in the selected areas to inform them about the project, the 'catchment' areas where we will be signing up farmers to participate and the timetable. The letters will include a contact point so MPs can get in touch to find out more or if they would like to discuss further.

Democratic Republic of Congo: Mining

Keith Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs pursuant to the answer of 12 March 2009,  Official Report, columns 621-22W, on the Democratic Republic of Congo: mining, what steps his Department has taken to promote good practice in  (a) the exportation of minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo and  (b) the mining sector; and if he will make a statement.

Ivan Lewis: We continue to work with other governments to identify ways to encourage companies involved in the trade of minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to follow appropriate practices, and to promote the lawful trade of natural resources. Since the Answer of 12 March 2009 to which the hon. Member refers, we have agreed a series of recommendations, some of which stemmed from the research of British officials, with international partners.
	We are carrying out research to determine whether British companies involved in the trade of minerals from DRC are acting in a way which might be subject to UN sanctions. We are also supporting implementation of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative in partnership with the World Bank, Germany, Belgium and the European Commission.

Probation Officers: Hampshire

Sandra Gidley: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many probation staff, excluding trainee probation officers, were in post in the Probation Service in the ceremonial county of Hampshire on 31 December 2007.

Maria Eagle: There were 249 full-time equivalent (FTE) staff on 31 December 2007 (based on the December FTE payroll report) for the ceremonial county of Hampshire (i.e. excluding the Isle of Wight). There were an additional 31 trainee probation officers (FTE) in post.

Probation Officers: Hampshire

Sandra Gidley: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many probation staff, excluding trainee probation officers, were in post in the Probation Service in the ceremonial county of Hampshire on 31 December 1997.

Maria Eagle: Prior to 2003, workforce information pertaining to the Probation Service was collected by the Home Office RDS Unit and published in an annual Probation Statistics Report. The information available from that time does not enable us to extract data for a particular probation area or job group within that area.

Probation Officers: Manpower

Sandra Gidley: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice 
	(1)  how many probation staff, excluding trainee probation officers, were in post in the Probation Service in England and Wales on 31 December 2007;
	(2)  how many probation staff, excluding trainee probation officers, were in post in the Probation Service in England and Wales on 31 December 1997.

Maria Eagle: The following table shows the number of probation staff, excluding trainee probation officers, in post in England and Wales on 31 December 1997 and 2007:
	
		
			   Staff in post excluding trainees 
			 1997 13,968 
			 2007 19,756 
			  Note: Figures shown as full-time equivalents.

Members: Correspondence

Damian Green: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer when he plans to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for Ashford of 23 October 2008, reference 62109/2008.

Stephen Timms: A reply has been sent to the hon. Member.

Members: Correspondence

Gerald Kaufman: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer when he plans to reply to the letter of 5 January 2009 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton on Mr. E. Warne.

Sarah McCarthy-Fry: A reply has been sent to the right hon. Member.

Members: Correspondence

Gerald Kaufman: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer when he plans to reply to the letter of 5 January 2009 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr. E Warne.

Sarah McCarthy-Fry: A reply has been sent to the right hon. Member.